Users can hook up IFTTT to Mastodon to auto-post from another site! WordPress users can also use this approach to publish new blog posts to their Societal pages.
1. Set up IFTTTs Maker Webhooks
On IFTTT, go to “Webhooks”. Activate it by clicking on the Connect button.
2. Create a HostRooster server to allow IFTTT as an application
Go to https://platform.HostRooster.com, sign up or sign in and create a new server and then install mastodon on the server. Once the application has been installed, create a new user, log in and click on New Application. Enter the following:
Name: IFTTT
Website: https://maker.ifttt.com/
Select Scopes: write: statuses
Submit the app.
Now open the new app you’ve created and look up the access token.
3. Create an IFTTT app!
Go back to IFTTT and create a new app. You could also set it up to auto-post every time you blog with a specific tag, or every new item in an RSS feed, or all kinds of things. Even cross-post from Facebook or œthe bird site (Twitter).
Since IFTTT has rearranged their site to make it easier to use pre-built recipes here are the steps to get to the point where you can build your own.
And now you’re ready to configure how IFTTT will actually talk to your Mastodon app. Enter the following settings:
URL: https://societal.co/api/v1/statuses?access_token=123456789 (replace 123456789 with the access token you got from Societal.)
Method: POST
Content Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Body:Â status=Whatever you want to post
For example, to share a link from Pocket you might want the body to be
status=>> >>Or for posting from WordPress, you might want it to be
status=New blog post: >>
>>Or from an RSS feed, you could use
status=New post: >>
>>The ingredients available (Title/PostTitle/etc.) will depend on the source you’re using, and you can get them from the IFTTT user interface. RSS feeds will have EntryTitle, EntryUrl, etc., WordPress will have post title and PostUrl, and so on. You can click on the Add ingredient†button to see what’s available.
Watch out for ampersands and single quotes, because the API handler treats them as separators. Even if they’re in the source material!
Be sure to include the status= at the beginning!
To post an excerpt in a CW that doesn’t show up in local/federated timelines or hashtag searches, you would do something like this:
spoiler_text=Link: >>&visibility=unlisted&status=>> >>
Unfortunately, this method can’t post images because uploading images to Societal is a two-step process** and IFTTT webhooks can only do one step. For Twitter, the cross-poster crossposter.masto.donte.com.br, can handle image uploads.
Click on Create action.
Add a title and click on Finish.
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